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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

OTTO F. SEYFARTI-I, OF NEW YORK, N-. Y.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,251, dated J une16, 1896.

Application filed October 4., 1895. Serial No. 564,634. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO F. SEYEARTII, of New York city, in the countyand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Harness-Saddles, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in harness-saddles; and theobject is to provide a harnessesaddle particularly adapted to sorebackhorses.

The invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement ofparts as will be hereinafter speciied,and particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a harnesssaddle embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a longitudinal section, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of thedevice on the line 3 3 in Fig. 4; and Fig. 4 is a plan view thereof.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the saddlepads, which may be ofany desired construction, and Ais the saddletree, having hingeconnection at its ends with the saddlepads. The tree is made of platemetal'and it is curved upward at its central portion to clear the'backof the horse. The check-hook a and the terrets a are secured to thetree. As here shown the shank portions of these parts are extendedthrough holes in the tree, and nuts are engaged on the threaded ends ofthe shanks. By this construction a broken terret or hook may be easilyremoved and a new one inserted. To the inner side of the pad-cover ametal plate A2 is secured by rivets. The plate has a transverseslot-opening a2 in it which registers with an opening a3 in thepad-cover.

'dicated at b2.

B is a clip-plate removably secured to the outer side of the saddle-padby means of screws b, which engage in tapped holes in the plate A2. Theupper end of the clip-plate has a loop or hook portion b', designed toengage in the transverse slot a4, in the end of the tree A', so that thesaddle-pads may move freely with relation to the tree and thus adaptthemselves to varying conditions or girth of horses. From the loopportion b the plate extends inward through the slots as a2 and thenupward against the inner side of the plate A2, as in- It will beobserved that the portion of the plate B comprising the loop b andportion b2 is reduced in width. The lower end of the clip-plate isprovided with a slot b3 through which the thill-strap may pass. The treeA, as before stated, is made of plate or sheet metal, and it may beslightly resilient, so as to yield and make the saddle fit easily on ahorse. The plates A2 and B are also of sheet metal and may be stampedout,

which is a much cheaper mechanical operation than casting.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- A harness-saddle, comprising saddle-pads, a metaltree having slotted ends, metal plates secured to the inner side of thepads and having slot-openings registering with slots through the pads,clip-plates removably secured to the pads and having hook portionsadapted to pass through the several slot-openings and havingslot-openings through which straps may pass, terrets detachably securedto the tree, and a checkhook removably secured to the tree,substantially as specied.

OTTO F. SEYFARTH.

Witnesses:

JN0. M. RITTER, C. R. FERGUSON.

